For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
